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I saw some moderators closed a boycott apple thread. I mean if it's in a offtopic forum. Why does it matter? Its starting to piss me off.
Mavman42 said:
I saw some moderators closed a boycott apple thread. I mean if it's in a offtopic forum. Why does it matter? Its starting to piss me off.
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Probably because it was completely useless and was just waiting for a flame war to begin.
Moderators should be objective, so any flaming thread will be locked.
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veeman said:
Probably because it was completely useless and was just waiting for a flame war to begin.
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Why does it matter? I thought we could talk about anything. But they want us to praise them?
Mavman42 said:
Why does it matter? I thought we could talk about anything. But they want us to praise them?
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No. They want people to stop making useless threads.
How old are you? If you want a flame war then go to Youtube.
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I bet as they're primary phone they use isheep phone. Any moderators if I have offended you sorry to rotten your apple.
Mavman42 said:
I bet as they're primary phone they use isheep phone. Any moderators if I have offended you sorry to rotten your apple.
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Dude.. this is an Android forum. I'm pretty sure none of the Mods use an iPhone as a primary phone.
LordManhattan said:
How old are you? If you want a flame war then go to Youtube.
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Old enough to realize what's right and wrong.
veeman said:
Dude.. this is an Android forum. I'm pretty sure none of the Mods use an iPhone as a primary phone.
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They could just use taptalk
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Mavman42 said:
Old enough to realize what's right and wrong.
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Locking useless threads is wrong? So I guess it'll be wrong when this thread gets locked too.
I can guarantee that no mod has closed a thread because they either agree or disagree with a pro or anti apple argument.
If you have a problem with a closed thread then get in touch with the moderator that closed it.
We don't need a thread to discuss it, and with that, this thread is closed.
Before the moderators close this thread, let me ask one question. Is there an apple development thread on this site?
Mavman42 said:
Before the moderators close this thread, let me ask one question. Is there an apple development thread on this site?
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Try http://forum.iphone-developers.com
It's xda's iPhone site.
Mavman42 said:
I thought we could talk about anything.
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You thought wrong.
Threads like that are just immature and pointless, and almost always end up in flame wars.
Is it just me or does anyone else feel that the multiplayer playlist choices are a bit of a let down. Yes I'm sure well see more with updates but I love my Big Team Battles and to constantly play Slayer is a bit boring. Bring back big team CTF & Assault and maybe a bit of Rocket Race for good measure.
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mr_tris said:
Is it just me or does anyone else feel that the multiplayer playlist choices are a bit of a let down. Yes I'm sure well see more with updates but I love my Big Team Battles and to constantly play Slayer is a bit boring. Bring back big team CTF & Assault and maybe a bit of Rocket Race for good measure.
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Another game thread? Seriously?
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SimonTS said:
Another game thread? Seriously?
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Sorry to sh1t on your day pal. Got a bit bored of talking about phones and tablets. I take it you don't like the Halo franchise?
Maybe next time I'll post something off-topic in the Devs section just to cheer everyone up a bit more. What do you reckon.
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mr_tris said:
Sorry to sh1t on your day pal. Got a bit bored of talking about phones and tablets. I take it you don't like the Halo franchise?
Maybe next time I'll post something off-topic in the Devs section just to cheer everyone up a bit more. What do you reckon.
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Assassins Creed is way better. Halo is still cool though
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mr_tris said:
Sorry to sh1t on your day pal. Got a bit bored of talking about phones and tablets. I take it you don't like the Halo franchise?
Maybe next time I'll post something off-topic in the Devs section just to cheer everyone up a bit more. What do you reckon.
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There is a gamin thread already that's what he was saying so calm down.
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RawnyRom said:
Assassins Creed is way better. Halo is still cool though
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I'm waiting for Assassins 3 to be posted from love film! Can't wait.
Tezlastorme said:
There is a gamin thread already that's what he was saying so calm down.
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Deep breath.......I'm fine now thanks Tezla.Nice PIC. If there's a common thread for every game under one thread then I'll look out for it later. In the mean time at least my question won't get lost on page 459.....etc somewhere else.
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mr_tris said:
I'm waiting for Assassins 3 to be posted from love film! Can't wait.
Deep breath.......I'm fine now thanks Tezla.Nice PIC. If there's a common thread for every game under one thread then I'll look out for it later. In the mean time at least my question won't get lost on page 459.....etc somewhere else.
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It won't get lost, but it will get locked by one of the Mods.
Yes. This is Off-Topic, but XDA is a mobile phone site. OT is allowed and tolerated because it is well moderated, but ultimately there are far better places if you really want to discuss games. That is precisely why there is ONE thread for games discussion and all others get locked - otherwise OT would just be two hundred games threads and nothing else.
SimonTS said:
It won't get lost, but it will get locked by one of the Mods.
Yes. This is Off-Topic, but XDA is a mobile phone site. OT is allowed and tolerated because it is well moderated, but ultimately there are far better places if you really want to discuss games. That is precisely why there is ONE thread for games discussion and all others get locked - otherwise OT would just be two hundred games threads and nothing else.
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Understood mate, thanks and apollogies to youself.
P.S. it's going back to the shop today, there doing the Dishonoured Collector Edition for £29.99!
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mr_tris said:
Understood mate, thanks and apollogies to youself.
P.S. it's going back to the shop today, there doing the Dishonoured Collector Edition for £29.99!
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Omg! Someone that doesn't get all mad and start throwing tantrums when they are told that their thread will get locked. My life is complete.
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veeman said:
Omg! Someone that doesn't get all mad and start throwing tantrums when they are told that their thread will get locked. My life is complete.
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I came in here looking for storms and xobx posts, I now leave disappointed
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BeerChameleon said:
I came in here looking for storms and xobx posts, I now leave disappointed
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I like Halo 4 multiplayer.
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Josepho1997 said:
I like Halo 4 multiplayer.
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Me too but go talk about it in the gaming thread.
Also: coolstorybro.jpg
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I'm new to these forums and since this thread has kind of become a META thread about the off-topic forum, then I'm going to say that I don't know if I like how the off-topic forum works.
I have only given off-topic an initial browse to see what it's like, but it looks like 75% of the posts are huge archive posts on a single topic. Then there are like 5 or 6 scattered threads of varying levels of interesting topics. Why not just let all the posts roam free?
Since I'm new here I'm only guessing, but I feel like the off-topic community is being unnecessarily divided into huge black holes of threads where nobody really gets to know anyone else. Am I wrong in the that guess? Or is there really a community of people who hang out in the off-topic forum and manage to keep tabs on one another within these huge threads?
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wirther said:
I'm new to these forums and since this thread has kind of become a META thread about the off-topic forum, then I'm going to say that I don't know if I like how the off-topic forum works.
I have only given off-topic an initial browse to see what it's like, but it looks like 75% of the posts are huge archive posts on a single topic. Then there are like 5 or 6 scattered threads of varying levels of interesting topics. Why not just let all the posts roam free?
Since I'm new here I'm only guessing, but I feel like the off-topic community is being unnecessarily divided into huge black holes of threads where nobody really gets to know anyone else. Am I wrong in the that guess? Or is there really a community of people who hang out in the off-topic forum and manage to keep tabs on one another within these huge threads?
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Most of the regulars here know each other and know quite a bit about each other. There are some good people here and some muppets - if you hang around you will soon enough work out which groups people fall into (hint: I'm one of the muppets :silly.
The OT forum is really here for people to blow off a bit of steam and build a feeling of community, without needing to chat about phones and technology all the time - just like going down the pub after work with your colleagues and not talking about work. However some people seem to feel that they have an inherent right to just open a thread for anything they want - they social equivalent of meeting your colleagues down the pub and starting to chat about sex with animals - not what the rest of the group want to discuss.
SimonTS said:
Most of the regulars here know each other and know quite a bit about each other. There are some good people here and some muppets - if you hang around you will soon enough work out which groups people fall into (hint: I'm one of the muppets :silly.
The OT forum is really here for people to blow off a bit of steam and build a feeling of community, without needing to chat about phones and technology all the time - just like going down the pub after work with your colleagues and not talking about work. However some people seem to feel that they have an inherent right to just open a thread for anything they want - they social equivalent of meeting your colleagues down the pub and starting to chat about sex with animals - not what the rest of the group want to discuss.
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That's cool that a group of regulars persists here. I was a regular of the off topic forum at xbox.com back in the day, so I know what off topic forums can be like. The forums back then didn't have these huge archive posts though, like this forum has. It was more like jungle rules, I guess you could say, so I was just worried that the jungle rules were what made that off topic forum special for me.
But if you say that the archive threads work, then that's cool. I just have to get used to them, I guess.
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I do think that we shouldn't force everything related to gaming into one thread.
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Josepho1997 said:
I do think that we shouldn't force everything related to gaming into one thread.
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In that case, petition the people who matter to get a forum created just for games to be discussed - then you can have as many threads as you want.
Something's wrong with Off Topic.
Be it double standards, unfair bans, post deletions... whatever...
All members who feel they have something constructive to contribute are welcome.
Let's try and solve these issues once and for all.
This thread started with it's main focus on two incidents that took place yesterday.
As I have repeatedly stated, those incidents are just a symptom of the disease.
Perhaps Off Topic is just a tumor on the face of XDA that needs to be excised.
Perhaps it's a place for people to cool down and fraternize.
But the members posting in OT have felt that something's been going wrong for the post few months.
Maybe that wrongness is an erroneous perception on our part, or maybe there actually is something wrong. We've all been trying to discuss our feelings about that on this thread.
Trying to wash all the dirty laundry once and for all, to resolve all the issues people have had here so that we can go back to our meme-posting ways in peace.
Please feel free to comment on us users too. Like the title says... this is a discussion, and I'd love to hear your side of the story too.
Please discuss.
@NotATreoFan @Judge Joseph Dredd @MikeChannon @M_T_M
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Today's incident isn't the only time users have had issue with this moderator, and the only reason I abandoned the PM I was writing and made this thread was because I felt other members should take part i this discussion as well.
Please comment, @flastnoles11 @FlyGurl
@roofrider
@veeman @jugg1es
@Prawesome
Thanks for posting this *****ing awesome thread.
I believe because mods (I'm obviously generalizing here, there are many that don't) think of themselves as a separate group from the rest of "us" and because of their "kinship" they show leniency towards each other.
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Heres some proof of him saying controutman can use the word but others can't
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."” ― David Brin
Hopefully we can wrap this up pretty quickly as it's nearly my bedtime.....
/me yawns
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Your welcome to PM either myself, My team leader or the moderator committee
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mark manning said:
Your welcome to PM either myself, My team leader or the moderator committee
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Yea right, we can all see a mod committee member's reply right above yours.
And a fail btw, if closing this thread was your intention.
mark manning said:
Your welcome to PM either myself, My team leader or the moderator committee
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Nah..... I want to see where this is going.
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Banning for use of the word ***** is just stupid anyhow. If you want to say it's a swear word, add it to the filter. Otherwise, if it isn't being used in an abusive or insulting way, let it be.
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flastnoles11 said:
Heres some proof of him saying controutman can use the word but others can't
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."” ― David Brin
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That's a pretty half-assed avoidance of the subject, plus, a moderator response to a report should be more mature, and at least attempt to use proper grammar. This looks like a 12 year old wrote it, I would expect a higher level of maturity from a mod.
prototype7 said:
Banning for use of the word ***** is just stupid anyhow. If you want to say it's a swear word, add it to the filter. Otherwise, if it isn't being used in an abusive or insulting way, let it be.
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A certain Smod (we all know who it was) made jRi0T68 change his sig because it had asshole in it, a word which isn't censored even today.
conantroutman said:
Nah..... I want to see where this is going.
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Okay. I killed it when I just had curiosity, but now you've got my attention.
Archer said:
Okay. I killed it when I just had curiosity, but now you've got my attention.
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If the people want to do this in public then so be it. All previous requests to deal with things properly have been ignores so let's just get it over with.
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I got a mention here, so I will just give my 2 cents. Not even 2 cents, just a few sentences
It was unfair.. Everyone should be treated equally. This isn't a democracy but still...
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conantroutman said:
If the people want to do this in public then so be it. All previous requests to deal with things properly have been ignores so let's just get it over with.
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Are you guys going to respond to the comments made by us in this thread? Or just chit chat among each other.
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roofrider said:
A certain Smod (we all know who it was) made jRi0T68 change his sig because it had asshole in it, a word which isn't censored even today.
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Unless something went on behind the scenes, I'm pretty sure cfb mentioned it (actually as an example of the double standards), and Jeremy changed it before any mod took action.
conantroutman said:
If the people want to do this in public then so be it. All previous requests to deal with things properly have been ignores so let's just get it over with.
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You all watch out for each other so what's the point? Can't say you don't either as mark mannings reply to my report on you using the word "*****ing" was pretty much ignored as you can see... Hypocritical power hungry mods
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veeman said:
Are you guys going to respond to the comments made by us in this thread? Or just chit chat among each other.
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Depends on whether or not you can bring up anything worth responding to.
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So this was the PM I got....
conantroutman said:
If the people want to do this in public then so be it. All previous requests to deal with things properly have been ignores so let's just get it over with.
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Point taken. I'll grab the popcorn
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Depends on whether or not you can bring up anything worth responding to.
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OK, just wanted to make sure you were still here. Don't want to sound like I'm *****ing though.
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So, instead of going on about how they aren't going to listen, let's try and get to the point, please? Ctm reopened this so we could have a discussion, so let's have one.
Mod edit...mod edit
Thing is, political discussion is strictly prohibited in XDA, even OT. Phones and devices aren't political, so XDA ain't political either.
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LoopDoGG79 said:
Thing is, political discussion is strictly prohibited in XDA, even OT. Phones and devices aren't political, so XDA ain't political either.
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thats a shame, hope it can stay, but house rules i guess, sorry mods, if you feel this must be closed, fair enough, with apologies, i thought off-topic would be okay
i hope at least one person see's it, not for me
LoopDoGG79 said:
Thing is, political discussion is strictly prohibited in XDA, even OT. Phones and devices aren't political, so XDA ain't political either.
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What he said,
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I was wondering the other day and thought, maybe start a thread and ask other users about it. How would you characterize an XDA Stereotype? I'm not thinking about your average Android user or Flashaholic, no, specifically the caricaturized XDA forum member.
Side note: I know, stereotyping can be insulting, so if you feel offended by this I may ask to close it.
I'm not offended. I can say when my friends see me reading xda forums/portals or watching xda developer TV on YouTube, I do get called "Nerdy" or more Commonly "Techy".
The most common stereotype I would say is that most people think I can fix anything electronic. I am the "local tech rep" for my friends and family. Lol.
Whiplashh said:
I'm not offended. I can say when my friends see me reading xda forums/portals or watching xda developer TV on YouTube, I do get called "Nerdy" or more Commonly "Techy".
The most common stereotype I would say is that most people think I can fix anything electronic. I am the "local tech rep" for my friends and family. Lol.
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Much the same, have been called a phone gremlin before though =-\
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People that don't know what a bug is even if they look straight at it
heavy_metal_man said:
Much the same, have been called a phone gremlin before though =-\
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Same. I have been told I have a "Problem"
Muahahahahaha :sly: